saditty

English

Alternative forms

• hasadity
• sadity, saddity, sadiddy
• seditty, seddity
• siditty

Pronunciation

• enPR: sə-dĭ′-tē, IPA^(key): /səˈdɪ.ti/

Adjective

saditty (comparative more saditty, superlative most saditty)

1. (US, dated, slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Acting snobbish, arrogant, or superior; uppity; perceived to be trying to associate with a higher social class.
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 30, p. 202,^[1]

     I would stop the car when we reached the kiosk and put on my siddity air. I would speak to him like the peasant he was. I would order him to start the car and then tip him a quarter or even a dollar from Dad’s pocket before driving on.

   • 1970, Al Young, “Snakes”, in Ishmael Reed, editor, 19 Necromancers from Now, page 355:

     You know who I mean – them saditty splibs, them e-lites that's so hung up on bein white that they cant even pronounce stuff right. They be talkin bout marking bird insteada mockin bird.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:saditty.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “saditty, a.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• dittays